ydekm wrote:especially the feminazi (HATE that term but it's apt) type that hang on SC and judge everyone about nappies and breastfeeding (or not) and whether you let your baby cry itself to sleep (or not)...

Crunchys, like RR

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=crunchy%20mama

Oh no! Lol.

I met one of those when I was in hospital after my c-section, she told me I was stunting my son by bottle feeding him and I would never love him like she loved her child, because I hadn't 'birthed' him.

I just laughed.

I think this is often made worse by some midwives/plunket nurses etc, I've come across more than one that has expressed that same opinion. The back up midwife I had with my first quite frankly said that she "felt sorry for the babies who were fed that shit by their mothers" and gushed over the fact I was (at that early stage) breastfeeding. I doubt she ever said anything of the sort to those formula-feeding mums themselves (hello massive complaint) but I can see how the bullshit superiority that some parents seem to exude would be encouraged by it. I guess people like feeling better than someone else, it just seems to get worse when there are kids to make comparisons of.

I was guessing... I couldnt remember where she worked. And also you've worked mostly in retail. So it had to be an area you were familar with.

Retail sucks, but not particularly mentally taxing. Perhaps from a people management perspective?

I'm thinking more above store level management.

What I did (Store Manager) was only really taxing time wise. 40 hour a week salary and I often ended up working a 70 hour week with no paid overtime. Crap employer, not Glassons.

But for people like Regional and National Managers, Buyers, VM's, it's an underated field. The stuff these people do (is quite likely very close to what Kissme does) is mentally taxing and has a lot of responsibility weight with it als.

Tara wrote: I think this is often made worse by some midwives/plunket nurses etc, I've come across more than one that has expressed that same opinion. The back up midwife I had with my first quite frankly said that she "felt sorry for the babies who were fed that shit by their mothers" and gushed over the fact I was (at that early stage) breastfeeding. I doubt she ever said anything of the sort to those formula-feeding mums themselves (hello massive complaint) but I can see how the bullshit superiority that some parents seem to exude would be encouraged by it. I guess people like feeling better than someone else, it just seems to get worse when there are kids to make comparisons of.

Oh no, the true Crunchys boycott Plunket because of its support from Huggies and Heinz/Watties - makers of Karicare/Nuture formula and the obvious baby food.But you should hear them all bitch about how Plunket undermines breastfeeding and supports formula blah blah fucking blah.

There's no comparison of kids in those circles, it's all a comparison between themselves... - the less 'mainstream' in terms of parenting, the better. They look upon those crazy women who breastfeed school aged kids (except their kids don't go to school, of course) as some sort of gods...